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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Headline in the print edition of the San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 12, 2008:
Incumbent Berkeley
mayor, predecessor
to dual for office again
I guess duelling twice makes it a “dual.”
Link to story here: http://tinyurl.com/637sqx
But the hed was changed for the online version.
Second cite: “a geographic equilibrium servicing the dualing needs of business & pleasure” from the design blog Brand New (http://tinyurl.com/6zr4hu).
Again, TWO needs, which probably suggested “dual” rather than “duel” to the author.
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Just the fact that there are two fighters makes a duel a dual.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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